Yer right, should've been more concrete but Candle answered my question. From the posts I got the impression Crysis on an xp system/dx9 was an exercise in frustration, unless you're content with 1024 x 768 medium settings. If I don't build a I7 system, then I'll go get a 285 gtx card.

I once tried Crysis with a Radeon X850. That wasn't pretty. It's not really designed to be limited to shader model 2. 😀

I had an 8800GTX for the game but even it struggled badly with some of the missions. I got a Radeon 6950 after that which was a huge improvement. Though you also need a lot of CPU power for the game because it uses a ton of draw calls. Not the most efficient engine, but it was certainly ahead of its time in 2006.

swaaye wrote:

I once tried Crysis with a Radeon X850. That wasn't pretty. It's not really designed to be limited to shader model 2. 😀

I had an 8800GTX for the game but even it struggled badly with some of the missions. I got a Radeon 6950 after that which was a huge improvement. Though you also need a lot of CPU power for the game because it uses a ton of draw calls. Not the most efficient engine, but it was certainly ahead of its time in 2006.

I can run it on my Q6600 @ 3GHz / GTX 280 on ultra @ 1600x1200. Framerates usually stay in the 30-70 range while running with 4x AA, with an average of ~45 fps.

My experience with Crysis through the first couple of years of its release were like this:

- Pentium 4 Northwood 2.8GHz, 1.5GB RAM, GeForce 7600GT AGP
1024x768 - Low
I was getting ~30FPS, many drops obviously.

- Core 2 Duo E6550, 2GB RAM, 7800GTX 256MB
1280x1024 - Medium
I was getting ~30FPS, again many drops and I remember how disappointed I was that I could not run the game on High. I was looking into buying a 3850 (this was early 2008) or maybe even a 8800GT but then...

- Core 2 Duo E6550, 2GB RAM, 4850 512MB
1280x1024 - High
Damn, what an upgrade this was at the time. The game mostly ran at 30FPS again, with quite a few drops to 24-25FPS, and sometimes reached 40-50FPS

No AA on any of the above, obviously!

Crysis was not really meant to run at 60FPS, it was insanely heavy and you'd be lucky to run it at 30FPS at the time. If I were playing it nowadays, I would gladly sacrifice visual fidelity for framerate though. What an amazing benchmark title, it is pretty hard for me to realize that it's been 9 years already. I've been meaning to get around to building a fast C2Q system and use a GTX 285 I bought a couple of months ago. I know what the first game I'll be trying is 😀.

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My experience with Crysis through the first couple of years of its release were like this: […]
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My experience with Crysis through the first couple of years of its release were like this:

- Pentium 4 Northwood 2.8GHz, 1.5GB RAM, GeForce 7600GT AGP
1024x768 - Low
I was getting ~30FPS, many drops obviously.

- Core 2 Duo E6550, 2GB RAM, 7800GTX 256MB
1280x1024 - Medium
I was getting ~30FPS, again many drops and I remember how disappointed I was that I could not run the game on High. I was looking into buying a 3850 (this was early 2008) or maybe even a 8800GT but then...

- Core 2 Duo E6550, 2GB RAM, 4850 512MB
1280x1024 - High
Damn, what an upgrade this was at the time. The game mostly ran at 30FPS again, with quite a few drops to 24-25FPS, and sometimes reached 40-50FPS

No AA on any of the above, obviously!

Crysis was not really meant to run at 60FPS, it was insanely heavy and you'd be lucky to run it at 30FPS at the time. If I were playing it nowadays, I would gladly sacrifice visual fidelity for framerate though. What an amazing benchmark title, it is pretty hard for me to realize that it's been 9 years already. I've been meaning to get around to building a fast C2Q system and use a GTX 285 I bought a couple of months ago. I know what the first game I'll be trying is 😀.

My GTX 1070 gets about 70-130 fps (1920x1080 / 8x AA ) but I can't get sound to work under windows 10. I tired patches, compatibility settings and ini editing - most I can get is some buzzing flowed by a crash to desktop 🙁

kanecvr wrote:

F2bnp wrote:

My experience with Crysis through the first couple of years of its release were like this: […]
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My experience with Crysis through the first couple of years of its release were like this:

- Pentium 4 Northwood 2.8GHz, 1.5GB RAM, GeForce 7600GT AGP
1024x768 - Low
I was getting ~30FPS, many drops obviously.

- Core 2 Duo E6550, 2GB RAM, 7800GTX 256MB
1280x1024 - Medium
I was getting ~30FPS, again many drops and I remember how disappointed I was that I could not run the game on High. I was looking into buying a 3850 (this was early 2008) or maybe even a 8800GT but then...

- Core 2 Duo E6550, 2GB RAM, 4850 512MB
1280x1024 - High
Damn, what an upgrade this was at the time. The game mostly ran at 30FPS again, with quite a few drops to 24-25FPS, and sometimes reached 40-50FPS

No AA on any of the above, obviously!

Crysis was not really meant to run at 60FPS, it was insanely heavy and you'd be lucky to run it at 30FPS at the time. If I were playing it nowadays, I would gladly sacrifice visual fidelity for framerate though. What an amazing benchmark title, it is pretty hard for me to realize that it's been 9 years already. I've been meaning to get around to building a fast C2Q system and use a GTX 285 I bought a couple of months ago. I know what the first game I'll be trying is 😀.

My GTX 1070 gets about 70-130 fps (1920x1080 / 8x AA ) but I can't get sound to work under windows 10. I tired patches, compatibility settings and ini editing - most I can get is some buzzing flowed by a crash to desktop 🙁

Semi off topic but we need a thread titled "Legitimate gaming reasons not to touch windows 10 as long as 7 still does the job"

kanecvr wrote:

I can run it on my Q6600 @ 3GHz / GTX 280 on ultra @ 1600x1200. Framerates usually stay in the 30-70 range while running with 4x AA, with an average of ~45 fps.

I was running it at 1920x1200. I recall it has the worst performance during the ice missions and the end carrier assault. But I haven't really played the game in years.

kanecvr wrote:

My GTX 1070 gets about 70-130 fps (1920x1080 / 8x AA ) but I can't get sound to work under windows 10. I tired patches, compatibility settings and ini editing - most I can get is some buzzing flowed by a crash to desktop 🙁

Just an FYI.. you were using the wrong version. The steam version doesn't work in windows 10. But the GOG version works 100% natively, sound, 64-bit exe, dx-10, everything.